Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface

[Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>]

Hi all,

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 07:49:19PM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>
>> fdt does this out of the box, too. So far I've seen nothing fdt
>> couldn't do (or doesn't do let's rather say).
>
> tlv/fdt/http headers are all essentially exactly the same
> thing. Key/value pairs with various encoding schemes.
>
> I don't think we don't need a tree of data, so fdt is overkill.
>
> tlv is not substantially easier to parse correctly than the
> structured plain text headers.. It is just in binary so it can
> represent binary-ish things better.

TLV Seems easy enough. To give an update, I played with fdt a bit to see
how far I get in half an hour. I got bool / int / strings to work
quite fast (~30mins).
Please disregard the horrible hackyness of this ...

For simplicity I stuck the header on top of my bitfile with:

<snip>
/dts-v1/;

/{
        description = "Test";
        compressed = <0>;
        encrypted = <1>;
};
</snip>

$ dtc -o header.dtb header.dts

$ cat header.dtb mybitfile.bin > /lib/firmware/bitfile_header.bin

+ static int __fpga_mgr_blob_to_image_info(const void *blob,
+                                          struct fpga_image_info *info)
+ {
+         int root_offset;
+         const char *desc;
+         const uint32_t *_compressed, *_encrypted;
+         int compressed, encrypted;
+
+         if (fdt_check_header(blob)) {
+                 pr_err("Invalid device tree blob header\n");
+                 return -EINVAL;
+         }
+
+         root_offset = fdt_path_offset(blob, "/");
+         if (root_offset < 0) {
+                 pr_err("Invalid root offset\n");
+                 return -EINVAL;
+         }
+
+         desc = fdt_getprop(blob, root_offset, "description", NULL);
+
+         _compressed = fdt_getprop(blob, root_offset, "compressed", NULL);
+         if (_compressed)
+                 compressed = fdt32_to_cpu(*_compressed);
+
+         _encrypted = fdt_getprop(blob, root_offset, "encrypted", NULL);
+         if (_encrypted)
+                 encrypted = fdt32_to_cpu(*_encrypted);
+
+         if (desc)
+                 pr_info("%s: description=%s\n", __func__, desc);
+
+         if (_encrypted && _compressed)
+                 pr_info("%s: compressed? %s encrypted? %s\n", __func__,
+                         compressed ? "Yes" : "No", encrypted ? "Yes" : "No");
+
+         return 0;
+ }

Which gave me:

<snip>

[   19.325182] fpga_manager fpga0: writing bitfile_header.bin to
Xilinx Zynq FPGA Manager
[   20.091222] __fpga_mgr_blob_to_image_info: description=Test
[   20.096730] __fpga_mgr_blob_to_image_info: compressed? No encrypted? Yes

</snip>

So I'm fairly convinced I can make this work, TVLs seem like it could work, too.

> So far the only thing we know we need is a 'bool' for encrypted and a
> stringish guid thing for partial reconfiguration.

Yeah, shouldn't be hard to implement either way.

Cheers,

Moritz